WMB vs. KMI, TRGP, ET, EPD, TRP, SU, E, VLO, OKE, and HES
Should you be buying Williams Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Williams Companies include Kinder Morgan (KMI), Targa Resources (TRGP), Energy Transfer (ET), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), TC Energy (TRP), Suncor Energy (SU), ENI (E), Valero Energy (VLO), ONEOK (OKE), and Hess (HES). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) and Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
In the previous week, Williams Companies had 1 more articles in the media than Kinder Morgan. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Williams Companies and 16 mentions for Kinder Morgan. Kinder Morgan's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Williams Companies' score of 0.74 indicating that Kinder Morgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kinder Morgan received 140 more outperform votes than Williams Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.56% of users gave Williams Companies an outperform vote while only 66.97% of users gave Kinder Morgan an outperform vote.
Williams Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Kinder Morgan pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Williams Companies pays out 79.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kinder Morgan pays out 104.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Williams Companies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kinder Morgan. Williams Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinder Morgan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Williams Companies currently has a consensus target price of $39.73, suggesting a potential downside of 1.54%. Kinder Morgan has a consensus target price of $20.20, suggesting a potential upside of 5.87%. Given Kinder Morgan's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kinder Morgan is more favorable than Williams Companies.
86.4% of Williams Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Kinder Morgan shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Williams Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Kinder Morgan shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Williams Companies has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinder Morgan has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Williams Companies has a net margin of 27.29% compared to Kinder Morgan's net margin of 16.08%. Williams Companies' return on equity of 16.27% beat Kinder Morgan's return on equity.
Summary
Williams Companies beats Kinder Morgan on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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